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<span class=large>ECCLESIASTES</span><br/> OR, THE PREACHER
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CHAPTER 3
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To everything there is a season—Whatsoever God doeth, it shall be forever—God shall judge the righteous and the wicked.
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To</span> every <i>thing there is</i> a <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/3/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 15: 23.">season</a>, and a <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/3/1b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Time.">time</a> to every purpose under the heaven:
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A <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/3/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Acts 17: 26; Alma 40: 10; D&C 138: 53 (53-56).">time</a> to be born, and a time to <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/3/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 20: 1 (1-6); D&C 42: 48.">die</a>; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up <i>that which is</i> planted;
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A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
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A time to weep, and a time to <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/3/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Laughter.">laugh</a>; a time to <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/3/4b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Mourning.">mourn</a>, and a time to dance;
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A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
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A time to <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/3/6a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR seek.">get</a>, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
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A time to <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/3/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 44: 13.">rend</a>, and a time to sew; a time to keep <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/3/7b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Silence.">silence</a>, and a time to speak;
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A time to love, and a time to <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/3/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Hate.">hate</a>; a time of war, and a time of peace.
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What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/3/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 29: 15 (14-16).">laboureth</a>?
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I have seen the <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/3/10a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR business, work, occupation, task.">travail</a>, which God hath given to the sons of men to be <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/3/10b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 122: 7 (5-7).">exercised</a> in it.
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He hath made every <i>thing</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/3/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Beauty.">beautiful</a> in his time: also he <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/3/11b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB hath set the eternal in their heart without which man cannot find out the work that God hath done.">hath</a> set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the <sup>c</sup><a href="eccl/3/11c" mark="c" type="A" title="Eccl. 8: 17.">work</a> that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
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I know that <i>there is</i> no good in them, but for <i>a man</i> to rejoice, and to do <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/3/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 34: 14.">good</a> in his life.
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And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it <i>is</i> the <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/3/13a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Gifts of.">gift</a> of God.
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I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/3/14a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Marriage, Celestial.">for</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/3/14b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Ne. 10: 18 (18-19).">ever</a>: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth <i>it,</i> that <i>men</i> should <sup>c</sup><a href="eccl/3/14c" mark="c" type="A" title="Eccl. 5: 7; Heb. 12: 28; Mosiah 4: 1.">fear</a> before him.
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That which hath been is <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/3/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Eccl. 1: 9.">now</a>; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.
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&#182; And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, <i>that</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/3/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="4 Ne. 1: 44.">wickedness</a> <i>was</i> there; and the place of righteousness, <i>that</i> iniquity <i>was</i> there.
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I said in mine heart, God shall <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/3/17a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Judge; TG Judgment, The Last.">judge</a> the righteous and the wicked: for <i>there is</i> a time there for every purpose and for every work.
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I said in mine heart concerning the <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/3/18a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR affairs.">estate</a> of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/3/18b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ps. 73: 22.">beasts</a>.
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For that which <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/3/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="Eccl. 2: 16.">befalleth</a> the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all <i>is</i> vanity.
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All go unto one place; all are of the <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/3/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 3: 19.">dust</a>, and all turn to dust again.
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Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
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Wherefore I perceive that <i>there is</i> nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/3/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="Eccl. 2: 10.">works</a>; for that <i>is</i> his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
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